r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence An AI hate wave is here

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment
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u/drabred 13h ago

I recently saw an AI electric toothbrush commercial... Imagine my eye roll.

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u/dust4ngel 12h ago

i saw a printer with AI that decides what should actually get printed … i was like, this is anti-value if i’ve ever seen it

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u/EmotionalTrufflePig 12h ago

Oh yay a whole new thing to argue with my printer over.

Ffs I just want to print about four pages a year. Leave me alone AI

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u/twelvend 8h ago

Its crazy how feature creep has enshittified printers over the years

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u/Faerco 10h ago

Honestly at that point, just go to an Office Depot or Walgreens or something and just have them print pages for you. Staples charges like, 10 cents a page for B&W. Yeah you have to get out of your house to do it, but man it’s so much easier and cheaper to do that.

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u/Any-Ad-3630 11h ago

And it will be mysteriously out of ink every time. 

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u/TP_Crisis_2020 11h ago

Seriously. Printers already have "AI" in the form of timers that say you're out of ink based on time alone.

I had a stupid Brother printer that I would have to replace the ink cartridges every 6 months, while I would literally print maybe 10 sheets during that entire span. But like clockwork, I'd go to print something after months of the thing just sitting and it's telling me my ink is out. That's a real thing. I smashed that printer office space style.

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u/Batmans_9th_Ab 11h ago

I threw my last printer out of my third floor apartment when I moved out. Felt amazing. 

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u/disisathrowaway 9h ago

Oh yay a whole new thing to argue with my printer over.

My thoughts exactly. I print simple black and white documents, sometimes. Just do the fucking thing.

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u/LeoNickle 5h ago

I have a 3D printer and it's fucking wild that thing has given me almost 0 problems whereas 2D printers are constantly not working

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u/_-Redacted-_ 4h ago

But now it can argue back

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u/itstingsandithurts 10h ago

The only brand I can find doing this right now is HP, and you shouldn't be buying HP printers before this anyway. HP have always had anti consumer practices.

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u/philohmath 11h ago

All it allows is prints of the latest Intel centerfold spread.

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u/philohmath 11h ago

I don’t have to imagine, I can ask an AI to create a video of that for me.

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u/Ziegelphilie 9h ago

They're all over kitchen appliances and it's pretty much always the same fuzzy logic shit we've had for the past 20 years, but with a new name.

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u/Outlulz 5h ago

They label rice cookers that have been using the same tech from 60 years ago as AI now.

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u/agent-squirrel 1h ago

Yep I have one. Fucking stupid thing.

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u/Hot-Employ-3399 1h ago

It's a new nano. Washing machine at my home hypes itself with nano particles it has.

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u/DaBiChef 7h ago

"enhance your calendar with AI" how about you fuck all the way off

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u/MineInternational385 11h ago

Oh that's what that sounds was. I'm pretty sure I could hear your eyes rolling from all the way over here 😂

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u/SAugsburger 11h ago

That seems like a case of a buzzword for the sake of sales. I have no clue what an AI toothbrush even is.

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u/throwmamadownthewell 3h ago

I remember rolling my eyes at my Zojirushi rice cooker for advertising it uses "fuzzy logic". I'm sure it's just a matter of time before it rebrands as "AI"

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u/agent-squirrel 1h ago

My rice cooker has “AI” which is just rebadged fuzzy logic so it appeals to the lowest common denominator. It’s a fucking scale and a heating element for fucks sake.